Interested in buying B6000. Please tell me about this one

[GodSpeed]

I'd like to go take a look at this machine within the next few days.

My understanding is there's no hour meter so it could have 100hrs or 10,000 who knows? It "looks" good in the pictures.


- Are there some notorious specifics about the B6000 I should be sure to check?

- Is this FEL proper for this tractor? What model is it? Good/Bad?

- Any suggestions on what's a fair and reasonable price? Given it's roughly between 39-43yrs old, these things seem to hold their value incredibly well

- Anything else you can tell me would be greatly appreciated


*two of the tires appear to be on backwards

Thanks!

 

[D2Cat]

Interesting little tractor. Just so you know, if you plan to use the PTO to power any implement, it rotates the opposite direction of all other tractors, making it a problem.

The loader looks like it's way too big and heavy for that tractor. Maybe I'm seeing it wrong, but it looks like you'd have to be standing to operate the loader controls with any accuracy.

The tires can be flipped to the other side to get the lugs in the right direction.

I'd say you have to really want that tractor for a specific reason to purchase it. Like, you want the loader for another tractor, or the tractor will do just what you need it to do without any additions or variations.

If you had that tractor and wanted to sell it without the loader on it, it might bring $800-1000 dollars in my neck of the woods, just because of it's size, age and reverse rotating PTO.

If you could use the loader, it's probably worth 1K, but that's a wild azzed guess! Just depends on how you can fabricate mounting brackets, condition of loader valve, condition of cylinders....

 

[GodSpeed]

I agree, the loader looks oddly proportionate to the tractor. So it's definitely not one typically associated with this machine? Does anyone know what model it is and what tractor it "should" be on?

Here's a picture of the current owner (presumably) with his hand on the controls. Not as bad as you'd think (don't have to stand!) --

I read about the ccw PTO. Weird and unfortunate and also surprising that being so troublesome, there's not more/readily available solutions to "fix" it. You'd think by now, ~40yrs later, they'd all have been modified to spin the "normal" way and it would be rare to find one still spinning ccw.

I mostly just want this thing to pull a box scraper to clear snow from my laneway and use the bucket to push back piles. I'd use it also for light landscaping in the yard ex. digging up a long hedge, ripping up sod, re-levelling the yard, moving topsoil, etc.

This unit and another one local, appearing to be in much worse condition, are both asking $6,000 I wouldn't want to offer anywhere near that.


Here's the one that looks worse (IMO) --

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Unless your on an island, those prices for a B6000 are nuts.

I personally am not a fan of the B6000's because parts are much harder to find and when you do you usually have to pay a premium.

You would be much better off with a B6100, B7100, or grey market B6001, B7000 or B7001.

 

[GodSpeed]

Unfortunately for me, the seller has based his price on the other one listed. I've indicated to him that it's been for sale for over a month and has well over a thousand views.

He also says he paid more than $6K for it a year ago. I feel badly for him if that's true. He was fleeced if he's not lying to me. He said he also got a tiller with it, which he sold separately (again, unfortunately for me).



What's "grey market?"

Also, what's the difference between the 6000, 6001, 7000 and 7001?

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

What's "grey market?"

Also, what's the difference between the 6000, 6001, 7000 and 7001?

Grey market tractors, are tractors that were not meant to be sold or used outside of JDM (Japan), there were a lot of them in the era of that tractor.

Read these two articles:

http://www.orangetractortalks.com/2008/09/discovered-its-a-gray-market-kubota-relax/

http://www.orangetractortalks.com/2010/07/10-myths-about-kubota-gray-market-tractors/

Some (about 1/3) of the B6000's were grey market, it's really hard to tell with that model if it's grey or not.

Don't lump a B6000, in with a B6001, B6100, B7000, B7001, Or B7100.
A B6000 is it's own animal total opposite of all other models, motor turns the opposite direction, and thus so does the PTO.

The other B's were almost all similar design with small differances.
The B7100 was so popular they made them for many years!

The B6001, B7000, B7001 and others were grey market
The B6100, B7100 and others were not Grey market.